From Austerity to Resilience - How to Build a Better Economy | Brighton

This workshop will empower participants to counter the common narrative that public investment is unaffordable or must be paid for by implementing austerity measures.

Whether for healthcare, education, pensions, climate action, and whatever else is needed in the future, you will come away with a true understanding of how governments spend money and what is possible.

Four sessions. Four perspectives. One coherent argument for change:

Part 1: MMT as a Policy Frame with Steven Hail, Associate Professor of Economics at Torrens University and founder of Modern Money Lab. Steven Hail is one of the leading teachers and communicators of MMT globally.

Part 2: Public Investment and the Cost of Living Crisis with Patricia Pino. An economist specialising in inflation and industrial policy, Patricia is Executive Director of MMTUK and co-host of the MMT Podcast. She is a PhD candidate at University College, London.

Part 3: Taming the Bond Market with Sheridan Kates. Sheridan is an ecological economist with a Masters degree in Economics from Torrens University, a newly elected Green Party councillor in Islington, and a co-convenor of the economic policy group in that party. Sheridan brings a focus on public money and fiscal sovereignty to the question of bond market constraints.

Part 4: Framing a Shift from Austerity to Sufficiency with Christian Reilly. Co-host of the MMT Podcast, Christian has spent years making heterodox economics accessible to non-specialist audiences across the UK and beyond. Christian holds a Graduate Certificate in the Economics of Sustainability from Torrens University.

(Optional) Afternoon / evening social
Lord Nelson Inn, 36 Trafalgar St, Brighton and Hove, Brighton
(Just 5 mins walk from the Jubilee Conference rooms).